On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:29:35AM +0100, sebgoa wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:01 AM, Peter J?nsson <peter.jons...@klarna.com> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I have been working on adding support for Cloudstack in packer.io. This way > > it is simple to create either new templates from scratch or update an > > existing template. For creating the initial template from scratch we have a > > custom iPXE ISO that will fetch the iPXE-script via userdata, boot > > kernel+initrd and finally perform a kickstart installation (we use centos). > > > > So the no more manual intervention to upload ISOs, select options in > > installer, stop the VM and finally create the template. Everything is > > automated. > > > > Plan is to upstream this to packer proper or release it as a independent > > plugin. Currently the code need some cleanup. > > > > That's terrific Peter, I am trying to wrap my mind around packer > these days, so it would be great to see a CloudStack plugin.
+1 - looking forward to a packer plugin for cloudstack! If possible, reuse the goclient that is already available to communicate via packer - https://github.com/mindjiver/gopherstack Happy to help with bugfixes etc! -- Prasanna., ------------------------ Powered by BigRock.com
